Untitled (Flying People Eaters)

1942

Matta
Chilean, 1911-2002

Status: On View, Gallery 397
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Matta
Title: Untitled (Flying People Eaters)
Place: Chile (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1942
Medium: Graphite and colored crayons, with smudging and erasing, on ivory wove paper
Dimensions: 58.8 × 73.9 cm (23 3/16 × 29 1/8 in.)
Credit Line: Lindy and Edwin Bergman Collection
Reference Number: 2018.340
Copyright: © 2018 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris

Germana Ferrari (editor), Entretiens Morphologiques: Notebook No. 1, 1936-1944, (London, 1987), p. 233 (ill.).
Dawn Ades, with Margherita Andreotti and Adam Jolles, Surrealist Art: The Lindy and Edwin Bergman Collection at the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1997), pp. 190–91, cat. 94 (color ill.).

Possibly New York, Pierre Matisse Gallery, “Matta,” 1942, cat. 2.
Possibly Chicago, Arts Club, “Matta,” 1944, cat. 1-5, 7, or 11.
University of Chicago, The Renaissance Society, “Matta,” 1963, cat. 20.
Paris, Musée national d’art moderne, “Matta,” 1985, cat. 46 (ill.).

Sold by Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York, to Lindy and Edwin Bergman, Chicago, 1960; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2018.

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